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Comment by Zephyrcape

OMG I WANT

Comment by GyratingMeh

This weapon is clearly designed as a paladin tanking weapon, yet, why does it only do 41.4 dps? At level 70, shouldn't paladins be able to wield a sword that does more 50 dps at least? Yeah, it has spell damage on it, which is nice, but seal of righteousness isn't supposed to do more damage than our white hits. I really wish that we could get a good one handed sword with the stats we want that doesn't also double as a mage's sword in a pinch.

Comment by pi321

It's a mageblade, for locks, and mages... why do you think that locks and mages are allowed to use swords?

Comment by destruction3402

Actually, that armor is quite good for mages and warlocks, in PvP situations ofc ;-)

Comment by Sloshed

This item adds roughly 21.5 to seal of righteousness's damage. Giving a (Talented) 43 additional threat per hit when using SoR. More if the person has the imp SoR talent.

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Comment by ryurt

Best pre-Kara sword you can get for a mage/warlock, beats Wraith Blade easily.

Comment by Runmymouth

Just got it today. This sword is one of the coolest looking caster items I have seen to date.

Comment by Toran

IMO this sword is great! I'm an aff lock and +hit and 130 SPdam is lovely. The Caverns rep sword http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29185 is nice but i would rather have +9 SPdam and +6 hit rating extra from this one, than the extra 150hp the rep sword gives at a loss of SPdam/hit.

Comment by Omnia

Yeah but this looks a lot cooler imo :p

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Comment by Sugarpop

This is a great warlock staff the armor is rather less important for mage BUT if you are stacking damage it is a very good main hand to go with a good off-hand.Get +40 spell damage on it and it may not be beat for a go long while.I suggest this and a good off-hand for any raiding/instancing offensive caster you will notice the difference.

Comment by kronnyq

Not long enuff..

Comment by clerya

ppl have to much to say. I remember the good old times in wow, when pallys healed, and passed on stuff like this.What has the world come to.

Comment by Elzam

Won it last night from a guild-run Shadow Lab. Any guild that isn't confined to the general class roles would be happy to have more than a Warlock or a Mage roll on it. Oh yeah, I'm a Paladin. The armor is negligible as nothing more than an arguing point, but the 1.8 attack speed guarantees full usage out of Reckoning by a Protection Paladin and the spell-damage is wonderful as it increases SoR/Cons/everything.

Rolled against a mage friend of mine who I informed at the beginning of the instance that I was gunning for it. He and the rest of the instance group agreed as they could see its applications for a Paladin. To Paladins looking to get this weapon that's probably the best route; let your group know that you're going to need it if you think they'll be weirded out by the concept so you have ample time to explain your decision. And if it's a pug and they say no, you have plenty of time to leave the group without feeling bad about leaving them standing at Murmur without a healer.

Oh, and to all the naysaying Warlocks/Mages who are sickened by the idea of my Paladin running around with this, keep in mind that Paladins only have maces and swords to get spelldamage from, and although maces have come a long way in the expansion there is nearly a 2:1 ratio of caster daggers to hammers.

Comment by Crinlin

MAGE WEP!i ran labs like 6 times and it hasnt dropped 1nce!

Comment by bosmonster

Anybody know why this sword, obviously meant for mages and warlocks, gives 60 armor? Looks like a waste of stats-points to me. Rather would have had 6 extra stamina... or heck, even int :)

Comment by Carod

Does it drop in Heroic or Normal mod?

Comment by Abandon

While an excellent paladin tanking sword, this will benefit warlocks and mages no matter what spec they are and no matter what they choose to respec to.

Comment by Kettuprkl

I think that is for Mages and Warlocks... Its for PVE/PVP and witch one at the high end has paladins tanking? Okay yes everyones gonna tell me that paladin is okay tank and they can do it. I dont question that, but still atleast 95% of people prefer Warriors as tank at hihg end. Even druid wich have been proven great tanks, goes to healing.

But if mages/warlocks dont need that one, then i would give it to a pally.

Comment by Lazypeon

Anyone know of an easy to obtain, +dmg off hand to go with this, preferably with some +sta?

Comment by Nerissa

Grabbed this tonight. Managed to nab the Adamantine Figurine off of Inciter as well, so I never have to go back to this hellhole of an instance again! (I love the Murmur fight but it just isn't worth facing Inciter again and again. Vorpil was just flying by the seat of my pants -tanking)

.... at least until I get a quest for heroic mode or something.

Comment by Aisenfaire

A point of interest (for anyone interested in aesthetics) is that if your character is a gnome, the sword is actually longer than the gnome's legs. So the sword drags around behind you while you're running, and (strangely) sticks straight down into the ground when you're standing still.

I believe it would be the same for dwarves, although I'm not certain on that.

Comment by Dryss

Oddly enough, it seems this item is being nerfed in 2.1. It's losing its 60 armor, but gaining 1 max damage point.

Comment by Koishii

lolwtf @ Blizzard.

Comment by Garryman

I doubt that a 10% chance is a true. As for me it seems much lower, as i've done about 20 runs, it dropped once, and some f%*#ing newbie mage got it. Well, one thing is good - that i like this instance. And I still have hope that it drops to me before i get a staff from Curator.

Comment by flame1

For weapon ownage, 10/10. It will save me some Keepers of Time rep grinding and will suffice until our guild has Kara on farm.

In terms of badassery, 10/10 again. It's so long it goes into the floor. And it pokes out of my raptor's genital area.

Comment by chineseman26

How come only one person mentions just how freaking long this sword is? When my gnome mage wears it, it drags into the ground. It looks awesome when you have a sword almost as long as you're tall. Thats a plus 50 style points for this, way out beating the rep sword, and the stupid looking mana wraith.

Comment by Kretschmer

Best preraid sword for an aff lock, but damned if I can get it to drop. Enchanted my CoT sword, instead.

Comment by pyrochung93

ive been grinding off slabs since eternity to get this, and still dont got it. Screw the drop rate.

Comment by Muck

As a holy or prot paladin it works well with a spelldamage set, since it means a lot less resists on higher level mobs. I offtank in Kara using this weapon, and tank 5-mans with it. Most people go "wtf" when they see a paladin with it, but with a large amount of spellpower and enough spellhit (which I need to get off my trinkets and mainhand, thanks for the itemisation blizz) means that mobs stick to me like glue.

It is one of the best spellhit mainhands that a prot or holy pally can get their mitts on, and even though it can benefit a mage or warlock, spellhit comes in greater quantities on staves, something that a paladin cannot use.

Righteous Defense, Judgement of Righteousness, Consecration, and Holy Shock are all spells, and I die on the inside when I see a partial or full resist due to level. With something like this, I hardly ever get resisted.

It also looks huge. As a Belf, it nearly scrapes the floor when I run about. I've seen plenty of gnomes with it, and they look hilarious!

So this weapon should be an equal roll for anyone that would use it. I admit, I was the only one on the run of Slabs that could use it when it dropped, and I had passed it up earlier when I was specced full ret.

Comment by gnomelock345

I was so stoked when this dropped on my first SLabs run (sorry if you've been farming). I'm also a gnome lock and I hit (-) to unsheath it constantly cause it sticks like 2 ft over my head :)

One thing I found out today kind of bummed me out though. As I'm going to be keeping this for some time I forked out the coin to get a Greater Spell Damage enchant put on it (the +40 one). This enchant is supposed to make your weapon glow with a white flame but it did nothing to mine. A guildie has the exact same enchant and his glows white so I dont know whats up (thottbot if you dont believe me). I believe its cause the sword has a pretty cool purple glow on its own and they dont want to ruin that. Thats my guess anyhow, other people must have enchanted this, has anyone else experienced this???

Comment by FinalCountdown

On my first kill of Murmur, I recieved both the Oblivion Robe and this. I am really impressed with the amount of spell damage, and how it supplies a good amount of Spell Hit and a large amount of spell damage, larger than some staffs. I have it paired up with http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28187, giving you a total of 32 stamina, 32 intellect, 26 hit rating, and a whooping 152 spell dmg.

Compare this to a staff, say, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28341. This staff is probably the best pre-Karazhan/Heroic Sethekk staff you can get. I don't even have the best off-hand paired with I think the best pre-Kara/Heroic 1h sword you can get. Let's compare the stats.

Total, you gain 10 spell hit rating and 31 spell damage from the sword/OH, while missing out on 5 stamina, 6 intellect, and 26 spell crit rating. My recommendation? Go with the staff ONLY if you have maxed out hit rating. Hit>Crit for raids, and I am willing to take 31 more damage over a little bit of stamina and intellect as an affliction warlock.

I do relize for classes like Spriests, Druids, and shamans, you cannot use swords. I would get http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27868 if you do not want the staff, or farm botanica (from what I've heard, longest BC instance in the game, unless you have a group willing to skip all the bosses and go directly to warp-splinter).

Assuming you never touch heroic Sethekk for http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29355, or for the Thrallmar/HH rep swords, this is one of the best weapons you can farm, as a caster, before going into kara.

Comment by Thanatos

I'm not sure if continuum blade isn't better than. It has more stamina AND more spellhit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd have a warlock/mage roll this over a paladin.

Comment by Zendi

Again, people only mention how long it is when a gnome is not wielding it. When a gnome is acually holding it it twice as long as the gnome, they look like they are going to sodomize some poor Tauren with it.

Comment by Knoxpwns

Not pointing fingers, but seriously, this isn't Thottbot. can't we just leave our "omg this <weapon> = best for <class>" generalizations at the door?

Comment by Honken

I was thinking, being Holy Pala, Ally and all that it means, wouldn't this sword be great for grinding (when occasionally you're not spamming Flash of Light in a 5 man)? It got nice stats, and the speed would be great with Seal of Vengeance (you might get lucky with the procs once in a while). I can see how the possible Mage/Lock would go bananas if a Healer needed on it for dpsing, but really, why should they have first dibbs on it?

Comment by daromeo

WHY?! Thats a really retarded question. See this is what used to make WoW better then RS, or KO, is that it didnt have greedy kids, and turks, and just little dumb KIDS who knew nothing about working with other people.Its just simple curtesy to let a warlock/mage need on this- just because they need it more. Just because someone COULD use it for grinding solo, doesnt mean a warlock who prob ran that place 20 times will loose a roll just because someone could use it. I could use a priest robe that has +100healing and +20 spell damage and really nice stats, but i let the priest have it. This is why its tough to do anything good with a PUG group, you get 50% chance of some dumb $%^& rolling on your item. Yesterday I had a priest outroll me on Robe of Oblivian- and I'm a WARLOCK. His excuse was that it had 4 more dps then his current robe. That ***** got kicked out of guild right away.Now if no one else in party needs, or if everyone is ok with it- go ahead roll if it really is an upgrade for you, but the curtesy people show you when you need something- please show them same.

Comment by tsetsenos

Hi friends.......this sword is very cool but i note 1 problem.Don't use enchant Fiery Weapon or Icy Chill.You will not see any different and you will spell without reason your gold. Good luck my friends.

Comment by DARCA

I ran Slabs constantly for this sword until 2.4 came out, then, I ran MgT got keyed for heroic, ran heroic once, and off the first boss this Dropped:http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34604

Now there is no spell hit, and instead there is the Worthless for me (AFF lock) Spell haste, but the pure DMG really out does the 14 hit rating i lose by not getting this sword. It also has better stats, but as a primarily PvE Lock those are almost negliable in that qauntity.

So casters do yourself a favor and get keyed for MgT heroic, get this instead. The first 2 bosses in MgT heroic are push overs, and you should have no problem getting this dagger in 1-2 runs. The drop rate on it is also rather high, so Good luck.

Comment by Hadrial

As a somewhat expierianced lock, I loved the +hit on this over the +crit on most of the other caster 120-130dm swords.

as an affliction lock who mostly pvp'd while having this, it sucked for stats, I eventually replaced with Jaded Dagger from heroic mgt, with s1 out and the easily farmable jaded dagger out, DO NOT BUY MAJOR SPELLPOWER on this, you will regret it!

Comment by Foxcrono

kinda reminds me of Genesis' sword from Crisis Core...

great sword for locks as well

Comment by taotedali

I can see how the possible Mage/Lock would go bananas if a Healer needed on it for dpsing, but really, why should they have first dibbs on it?

They should have first dibs because it is their main spec and you are want it for casual use. You should never roll against someone's main spec out of common courtesy.

I use this sword currently on my paly tank as a main spec. I use Crystalline Kopesh When soloing/grinding because of the higher DPS and stamina. I only need the spell damage for threat generation. And I got it on a run when nobody else needed it. Also I stated before the run started that if it dropped I was rolling on it so if anyone objected they or I had the chance to leave the party before anyone got @#$%ed.

I would suggest going to do Durn the Hungerer if you want a nice soloing weapon.

Comment by Credan

I am not sure if any one else has noticed but an easy alternative to this amazing spell blade is the Archmage's Guile.

While not as flashy as the Greatsword of Horrid Dreams, this sword is obtainable once you hit Revered with the Shattered Sun Offensive for the low cost of 35g 54s 65c and has the same amount of spell damage as the aforementioned blade.

The only downside is the reduced stam and intel and a trade of Spell hit for Spell Crit. But that can be negligible if your concern is spell damage. You only loose 3 stam and 3 intel and trade 14 hit for 20 crit. A decent trade off considering how much easier this is to obtain.

When paired with an easily obtainable off hand like The Saga of Terokk you will be packing a considerable punch.

Both are the current equip of my Affliction Warlock, and quite frankly I could not be happier. This will hold me well until I can obtain something better like the Jaded Crystal Dagger from Magisters' Terrace or blades considerably better like the Bloodmaw Magus-Blade from Gruul's Lair or the Nathrezim Mindblade from Karazhan.

Comment by menemew

There is no more bad ass-looking sword in the entire game! Nuff said ^^

Comment by Tesslyn

How does it look with fire?

Comment by artekfrost

the most important question: does this sheathe on your back or at your side?

Comment by healingenzo

Dropped on greed for my Resto Shammy tonight. Shame she's only 67. But I plan on holding on to this & seeing how it compares to my BoA mace at 70.

Want the stamina, simply because she tends to pull pretty badly with any but a very good tank. And most tanks don't notice until the healer runs through the mob going "OMG OMG OMG".

Comment by tharamar

It's just a shame that when you turn level 70, this sword might as well be a hunk a tin for you since swords are a big no-no for shammies.

Comment by Kingrames

With the upcoming transmutation feature, this will be a nice sword to have - it has the same appearance as a two-hander sword but is one-handed. Blood elf female tanks might enjoy having a weapon that doesn't look quite so dainty. And this is just about the only way to do it.

Comment by Lithuen08

I have been trying to get this for my mage for the upcoming transmogrification feature, and it appears this weapon has the most horrifying droprate imaginable. I've been running on normal and have gotten every other regular drop several times over, but have yet to see this one.

Comment by Dj1313

It is important to understand something while searching for weapons for the new transmogrification feature:Your underlining weapon will keep its enchant on the overlapping art work.

What does this mean?If you have power torrent on your item it will place power torrent on the new skin.Why this sword is perfect:No enchants show up. If you want a simple and elegant looking sword this is the way to go. I am personally sick of PT, Mending, and other obnoxious enchants that ruin the artwork of the weapon.

Comment by Nephrack

Any idea what shield that is in picture 7?

Comment by ropergaran

Comment by endersblade

Hopefully they remove the 'main hand' part of this with the patch. They said they'd be changing things like that around to grant access to more items for transmogrification. As it currently stands, a lot of tanking weapons are one-handed, and you can't transmogrify a MH weapon onto a 1H weapon.

Comment by Rheostatik

Yeah, plate-wearing tanks can forget about using this weapon to transmogrify. One-handed tanking weapons in current content are all "One-Hand" weapons.

Comment by Foobear

Comment by BlueMendari

Seconded. Please, what is that shield in picture 7? It looks wonderful.

Comment by Leishai

It reminds me of Ultima Weapon, Cloud's weapon from Final Fantasy VII.

Comment by zarnees

Could someone add a screenshot of the sword in its holder thingy?

Comment by defektunge

For anyone hoping to use this (the most awesome sword model ever) for transmogrification, note that it is entirely useless for anyone except casters. This is tagged as main hand only, and virtually all melee swords are "one handed", which doesn't count as the same kind of item. Regardless of whether your class is actually capable of dual wielding. So unless you're a caster, chances are this will be rotting in your bank forever or until Blizzard changes the transmogrification rules.

Comment by stradivarius84

Here follows a list of swords with glows or effects that will override weapon enchants.Please feel free to suggest additions or changes to the list. I would like to give credit to Töki on blizz forums for suplying a very good list of weapons.

Comment by Teradon

This weapon is enormous. It's almost as long as Armageddon, which is known for being a very, very big 2h sword, but this ... this is a 1h sword. It's rather slim in comparison to Armageddon, but still a huge sword.